Family law is a uniquely personal area of the law and often encompasses both social and financial issues. Recently, the Minnesota State Legislature amended various statutes related to spousal maintenance, antenuptial agreements, and other issues impacting families. Many of these changes take effect on August 1, 2024. This Special Family Law Edition provides an overview of the recent changes to the family law statutes – empowering our clients to make informed decisions. Quality legal service is our profession, our business, and our privilege. We are grateful for your trust in us, and we look forward to serving you. | |
The Minnesota State Legislature has undertaken a significant overhaul of the family law statutes, due to take effect August 1, 2024. This article will serve as your guide to the upcoming changes and understanding their impact on spousal maintenance in Minnesota. MORE > | |
Minnesota has long recognized the right of engaged couples to enter into antenuptial agreements — more casually referred to as “prenups.” While antenuptial agreements were once unique to celebrity couples and the ultra-wealthy, these agreements have become increasingly commonplace for engaged couples from all walks of life. MORE > | |
Engaging in the family court process can be stressful and emotional for all involved. Any changing family dynamic that also includes a pattern of abuse – whether physical, emotional, verbal, financial, spiritual, coercive in nature, etc. – requires an extra level of care while navigating the legal process. MORE > | |
There are various reasons why former spouses may seek to modify the amount and duration of a maintenance obligation. Minnesota law provides different options to seek a modification of spousal maintenance, including retirement, which the Minnesota Legislature has now strengthened as a justification for reducing or terminating spousal maintenance. MORE > | |
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Moss & Barnett’s Family Law Team offers a unique blend of creativity, common sense, and compassion, backed by decades of experience in the most personal of legal practices.
Moss & Barnett is distinctive among full-service law firms for our nationally recognized family law practice. Our lawyers are regularly included in Minnesota Super Lawyers and The Best Lawyers in America and are frequent contributors to state and national publications and seminars.
Family law cases often implicate other legal issues related to businesses, trusts and estates, retirement and employment benefits, real property, and tax law. Moss & Barnett family law clients benefit from our access to in-depth resources to address these issues. Our Family Law Team has extensive experience collaborating with attorneys in other practice areas and managing complex financial questions with financial neutrals and experts, including business valuations, nonmarital tracings, and calculating cash flows and spousal maintenance. MORE >
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Jana is a nationally recognized family law practitioner who serves as a compassionate advocate for clients and their children. She is knowledgeable, responsive, and committed to understanding her clients’ needs to achieve positive outcomes. Jana strives to resolve matters outside the courtroom to minimize distress and disruption, but when the parties cannot reach a consensus, she is fully prepared to represent her clients’ interests at trial. She believes that every client deserves dedicated, competent guidance throughout their family court proceeding, culminating in a conclusion that prepares her clients to confidently move forward. Jana is a Qualified Neutral under Rule 114 of the Minnesota General Rules of Practice, available to offer families ADR services such as family law mediation and financial early neutral evaluations. MORE > | |
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Jim assist clients in a variety of matters, including complex litigation and settlement of marital and non‑marital assets, complex non‑marital tracing, spousal maintenance, child support, business valuation disputes, settlement negotiations, appeals, premarital and postmarital agreements, custody settlement, and litigation. He brings a compassionate approach to difficult family law cases in both alternative dispute resolution forums and litigation. Jim has worked with children in numerous contexts over the years and is sensitive to the emotional challenges presented by difficult family situations. He works diligently to minimize these potentially stressful situations and produce favorable results for his clients. In addition to participating in landmark family law cases in Minnesota, he contributes articles on family law topics to professional journals and lectures on a multitude of family law issues. MORE > | |
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Brittney assists clients in all family-related matters, including parenting, support, division of assets, stepparent and same-sex adoptions, antenuptial agreements, and many other issues confronting modern families. She has extensive experience with cases involving complex social and financial issues at both the trial and appellate court levels. Prior to joining Moss & Barnett, Brittney clerked for the Honorable Anne K. McKeig and the Honorable Jane B. Ranum in Hennepin County Family Court, gaining invaluable insight into the court's perspective on family law litigation. Brittney previously worked with the Family Court Enhancement Project and on legal and legislative projects related to the Minnesota Domestic Abuse Act. Currently, she contributes time and experience to appellate domestic abuse cases, and she has written and presented extensively on domestic violence's impact on family law matters. MORE > | |
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April assists clients in all family law related matters, including dissolution proceedings, paternity, custody, parenting time, child support, spousal maintenance, orders for protection, and distribution of marital assets and debts. Prior to joining Moss & Barnett, April clerked for the Honorable Elizabeth V. Cutter in Hennepin County Family Court, gaining valuable insight into the court’s perspective on family law litigation. During law school, April earned honors for legal writing, was a staff member and online editor of the Minnesota Law Review, and served as a student director of the university’s Family Law Clinic. MORE > | |
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Debra is committed to compassionate advocacy and understands that creating a new normal for a transitioning family is not a one-size-fits-all approach. She assists and strategizes with clients to develop creative and effective solutions to complex family matters, including dissolution proceedings, paternity, custody, parenting time, child support, spousal maintenance, orders for protection, distribution of marital assets and debts, and the many other issues today's families face. Debra is a Qualified Neutral under Rule 114 of the Minnesota General Rules of Practice, available to offer family law mediation in person or remotely. MORE > | |
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